Australian shoppers looking for hot chips in the nation's supermarkets have been frozen out. What's behind the shortage?
It's caused cafés and resturants to become creative with their menus and one supermarket to introduce customer limits.It's a household freezer staple.
"Potatoes are quite a set-season crop, so they need sort of that three to four-month period to come up out of the ground, develop a good plant, set tubers, and then grow those tubers," potato grower and Victorian Farmers Federation vice president Katherine Myers told SBS News. "The larger the potato, the better the skin-to-potato ratio. When you've got smaller potatoes, you have a lot more wastage in the factory," she said.SBS News
"As much as the processors and the factories and companies like McCain's and Simplot would plan to bring potatoes in from Europe, that surplus hasn't been there this year, so it's sort of a double-whammy," she said.
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